Wow_Ladies: Girl Gamers of World of Warcraft

I found this in the Eu interface forum and screamed. Its so pretty how did she get it and where do i get one.

Hi everyone!! My name is Talia and I joined a few weeks ago but I've been going over the archive post to get advice and more knowledge about the game before I posted for real. :)

I started playing in November and my main is a Night Elf Hunter named Briacelle on the Scarlet Crusade server (US-RP) who just turned 60 yay! I also have a 16 Draenei Paladin (Laruka), a 14 Blood Elf Rogue (Arrekke), and an 11 Tauren Druid (Atorio). I also have a 13 Human Mage (Evry) on the Black Dragonflight server (PVP-US). Yeah I got a bit of an alt-itis thing about two weeks ago when leveling my hunter was starting to get to me. Here's my armory if you want to look. I think my armor is pretty bad but since I don't really raid or anything yet I'm living with it.

After doig some research this week, I've decided that I want to try soloing some instances for a change of pace, as well as to make some money (need lvl 60 mount!!). Wowwiki says that the Scarlet Monastery is often ran for money so I was going to start there. I'm probably going to go on a gold grinding spree this weekend (unless my friends drag me off to Shattered Halls where I will probably get my face eaten off DDD:). I was also thinking of going to the Sunken Temple for a solo run (and hit up my now grayed out hunter quest while I'm at it) but I'm not sure how hard that would be. I have very limited instance experience so it'll probably be painful until I figure more stuff out but I just want to try it in a couple places and see where it goes. Are there any places that you would recommend for soloing for gold?

Also just a curious thought I had... XD A week or so ago I was questing in Un'Goro and about had a heart attack when a Devilsaur snuck up behind me. Seriously, I jumped and screamed a little. Luckly, there was another person there to help me kill it or I probably would have died. Have any of you been seriously scared by anything in the game? I'm just curious because I felt kind of stupid, especially since I should have been looking my tracker because, duh, hunter. I was so paranoid for like an hour afterwards.

If anyone plays on my server and sees me online, feel free to drop me a whisper! :D I don't RP though, even though I'm mostly on an RP server. I tried that once and it did not go well.

Trying to start up a guild for my friends on Moon Guard (hordeside)

Would anyone be willing to help with signatures? :D Whisper Taraeya, i'll be in the tauren starting area!

EDIT: Got em, thanks so much!

So, our Kara/ZA guild was caught in the same trap as many other ladies here.  We had roughly 10-15 people or so in the guild, but not enough to tackle 25 man content.  We lost a few people who wanted to progress faster or had real life complications.  So, we posted a nice note on our realm forums and met up with a guild just starting Kara.

The first week was rough.  Since about 5 of us have been running Kara for months, we're totally geared.  So, we gave up most of the raid spots for the new folks.  Some of the new folks were our own new members and some were the other guild's members.  First week did not go great.  Nice people, all friendly and polite, but just not enough DPS.  They downed through Curator and couldn't tackle Shade or Illhoof, so everyone was feeling a bit discouraged.

But, this week, we finally got enough folks for two Kara runs.  We split up the old and new guard and headed in.  Both groups did really well.  Our group got through Shade (decided to wait on Nightbane and Illhoof in favor of having the port up to Shade's room next time).  The second group decided to kill Nightbane first and ended after getting him down.  Our MT got his much desired chestpiece off of Nightbane, while I continue to pine away for the Big Bad Wolf's gun.  But, we only sharded two purple items, which meant everyone got a bunch of gear they could use.  In the past, we've sharded almost an entire Kara run, leaving our guild bank with over 60 void cyrstals, so it was nice to be able to tell people to be greedy and if you ever, might, maybe need this piece of gear, please take it.

It was also the first night for my husband and I to really run the show.  My husband is a Prot Pally, so he was tanking most everything.  As the hunter . . . well, I kept traps on the healers, pulled mobs off of wayward clothies, and MDed my little heart out.  Plus, we'd never led a raid before, but made a great team.  Husband did most of the strategic talking (although I filled in when he forgot) and I played cheerleader, sending tells to people who were doing well, complimenting the healers, etc.  Everyone got along great, the new guildies seem to really like running with us, and they're progressing in Kara and getting good gear.  Plus, we only wiped twice, once to my husband, god bless him, backing into Curator before we were ready and once learning the Shade fight.  Otherwise, every boss went down first attempt.

I was always terrified by guild mergers, but so far, this one has gone incredibly smoothly.  Just wanted to share a nice story here, instead of my usual venting.

I don't give up that easily. I have figured out the addons and it's more trail and error than anything my question now is now that I find something I like and want to use how do I get rid of the WOW UIs or addons that come with the game? I hope that makes since I've been up for a few hours when I need to be in bed.

I got such fantastic advice on Lurker, we got him again, one shotted this week.
Mags too.

Tonight is our first shot at Void Reaver.

Any good advice for a BM hunter?

I heard I may want to respec my pet with Arcane resis.
Anything else?

Thanks in advance! <3

Ugh. We ran Kara last night and it was *not* a good night for me.

( Cut for random PMS-ness )

...compared to regular play. I played yesterday for a bit, met Annora, played a bit more... then I had to log because I was totally wiped out with the RP! I'm just so used to talking/acting normally on all my characters. I play a rogue with paranoid tendencies who stealths everywhere. Which is sort of fun, and initiates contact between others. I did bring a friend over from my PvE server and he made an orc, ran all the way to Eversong to play with me, only to find out he couldn't pick up any quests. He did get a large audience of elves around him whispering and talking; he had no backstory so he feigned amnesia... he did end up deleting and rolling a belf hunter named Drahkir.

So, it is fun but also draining for me. I'll have to look up some RP sites and tips and stuff today. Hope to see some of you out n about there today or tonight.

I posted a while back (thank you for all of the hugely helpful comments!) about improving my 70 BM hunter. I've been working on improving my gear, and my trapping abilities (with good success), and the like. I'm gradually, as availability and gold allows, adding in gems and enchants. I've actually made it through the first half of Kara (through Curator), thanks to an invite from a friend and support from a much better geared than me group. I even got my Tier 4 gloves out of the run. But.. I've never run a Heroic instance, and I'd like to start. I've seen some general stats around for what a BM hunter should aim for to start Kara, but what I have a harder time finding is what I should aim for in terms of heroics. I'm sadly going to be stuck with PUGs for most of it, as my guild isn't up to heroic level runs yet and I have irregular luck with having friends on who're running heroics. I've been trying to pick up some good pieces where I can, although my luck with getting PUGs to make it through the instances I need for those (and having the right things drop) has been somewhat cursed of late - I can't get another piece of Beast Lord to drop for the life of me.

So - how do I know when I'm ready to run a heroic? What should I aim for as a minimum? How similar is it to being ready for Kara? This is me, by the way. (Don't laugh. I'm working on it, I am. And I know I need to enchant most of what I've got - that's one of my weekend goals.) Oh, I do have a couple of items that can boost my +hit (by about 20ish) and +RAP (by.. um.. 50ish?), but I tend not to keep them equipped as they drop my stamina more than I'd like - which is partly why I've got a couple of +sta bonuses on items.

i really want to like grid. combined with clique, its supposed to make raid healing "effortless". i downloaded it but didn't know how to set it up, i couldn't detect who was in range for healing, the icons took up the entire box for each character so i couldn't see if they needed more healing than my renew. also i didn't know how to set it up with clique! finally I just went back to PerfectRaid. i'm at work so i can't post my UI but you can preview the mod here:

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4673

i love perfect raid's simple interface - you can easily see who needs buffs (it detects your class and puts a little letter next to character bars of buffs each person is missing from your buffable spells), who has aggro, your hots, who is in range, color by class, sort by group, alphabetical, etc.

however i came across this excellent article on wowinsider

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/01/22/raid-rx-unkicking-butt-a-grid-story/

that goes through the setup step-by-step.

I also found this video that takes you through the setup (its a bit long but very educational, i haven't watched it in its entirety but seems like he covers everything) http://www.stage6.com/wowhealing/video/1662363/GRID-and-CLIQUE

grid combined with clique means that you can simply left click, right click on ppl to heal them by combining special clique/grid keybindings...its also a big space saver. most of the healers in my guild use this combo so i'm thinking of giving grid a try again with the help of these links. would love to hear what mods you're using, what you love, hate, etc.

I needed a healer, so I rolled a shaman, leveling him as Enanchment(windfury+flurry proc+haste proc=ohmygoddrool) I have no clue why i picked shaman. If only because In battlegrounds, resto shammies and druids never freakin die(Im the feral druid gnawing on their ass for an hour lol) So uh...here's my question and Ill word it like the newb i am "How I heal D: " What totems are better for 5 mans? What are better for raids? I would assume, being a healer when i get there, id  be with the melee/tank to give them windfury but uh...what else? Mana tide and Health totems seem...useless to me (oh look..a tic of health..woot) All I can say is i love earth shield as a tank druid though =D (look look I DONT DIE!...oooh shiiinies..)  And does anyone have any good resto specs I could look over?

Hey there, newbie question again.

I'd like to clarify something. 

I had an epic gem drop for me running an instance. It was an awesome gem, I equipped it in my eipc helm. Months later, runnng the instance again, the same gem dropped for me. By that time, I hadn't realized it was the same, rolled and won. Kept it in the bank waiting for some good gear to socket it in.

Now I have the gear and found that the gem is "Unique". Does that mean I can't equip it? I haven't tried, out of fear of destroying one of the gems. Do you know if I can equip the same epic, unique gem in two different slots?

Also, what is the difference between "Unique" and "Unique-Equipped"?

Thank you! :-)

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Edit:  Bad me, I just re-read the group rules and didn't want a strike!

Um... what did you name your hunter's kitty?  Mine's Bronte. :) 

Here's a convo I had with my husband in IM re: WoW.
Background:
I've been trying to lvl my main (tankadin) to 70 in time to do a big surprise birthday/raid in late March when hubby turns 28.
Since I'm a housewife, I've been able to rearrange what I get done when so I can have nice chunks of time where I can grind my way along.
I've been doing a level a day, but sometimes I get stubborn and will insist on dinging to the next level even when I know it's time for bed. :-)

Last night, I was 7% from dinging 58 and I just COULD NOT go to sleep till I dinged...and I only had one quest left to turn in... in a place I was pretty sure I'd never been to before.

Enjoy.

Oh, while I'm thinking of it: anyone else find themselves unable to go to sleep because something from the game is pestering them and keeping them from getting to bed and/or falling alseep?
What do you do to finally get your ass to bed?

My main (Senarra, troll mage) gets all the attention. She gets to see new content, she gets to raid five nights a week. My poor hunter (Auryon, blood elf) never gets to do anything. /pout

So I try and get her special presents. And that is becoming somewhat of an obsession.

It all started because I didn't want to ride a battlechicken... (picture heavy cut!)

( and runecloth is really freaking expensive when you need so much of it! )

caltan's icon "zomfg healz" made me think of this video. its old so i'm sure a lot of you have seen it already but its worth a shout-out, makes me laugh every time

http://fellowcraft.ytmnd.com/

turn sound down if you're at work ;)

I was messing around with my talent points, and this is what I came up with Possible Build Here

All I'm doing right now is BGs and arena, so I need a good PVP spec. My pet is one of the kitties from Winterspring. Though the warp stalkers look pretty nifty. What is a good pet for arena/PVP. Hoth is currently trained in growl, claw, bite, and dash.

And this is my armory: This is it....

I'm doing decent in BGs, but in arena I'm the first to die.... So...Help??

And something to amuse, you know you play too much WoW when: Boyfriend wants you to knit him a hat. You say ok. Several weeks later hat hasn't been started. Boyfriend asks about hat. You say, oh, I don't have all the mats for it yet. D'oh.

So while I've been rping in all kinds of forms, I've never rped on World of Warcraft. I used to use City of Heroes/Villains to get out my rping urges, but now that I've simplified to just one MMORPG for my own sanity I thought maybe I should give it a casual stab on an rp server in WoW (Argent Dawn for the record).

I know all the basics, the do's and do-nots that come into play with any rp setting, but it's the particulars of WoW that I want to ask about.

- Quests - do you only take the quests your character would take? What happens if you end up doing a "kill so-and-so" quest with someone else that you've already completed, how would you explain killing the same person twice?

- Deaths - how is this typically handled in rp?

- How do you handle necessary OOC chat such as when you're looking for a group for a dungeon? Both in and out of guild.

- Armor - do you only wear what your character would wear, even if the better armor is one your character wouldn't be caught dead in?

- Are there any areas of the game where RPers hang out while not questing? In CoH there was a neutral bar where heroes and villains alike could find random rp with other players and most rpers knew to hang out there, not sure if WoW has anything similar.

- End game content: is this still done rp-wise? Just wondering as I was considering transferring one of my 70's to an rp server.

Thanks ahead of time for all your help!

Just wondering if any of you ladies can help me out with a bit of advice re the Oceanic servers. I'm a US-Feathermoon devotee which, as you may know, is an RP realm. I love the server to bits, but I just can't find any Alliance-side raids that run in Aussie peak-times.

So, I'm thinking of transferring a character to an Oceanic realm for a better chance at raiding - but alas, they have no RP server! I wouldn't mind playing on a Normal server but I'm just wondering, for those of you who play on an Oceanic, if any of those realms could be described as RP-friendly or at least have a minimum of idiots/arsehats?

When I joined WoW just over a year ago, I rolled a little rogue on a PvE server. I pootled around, I got to 40....content to see places, mapping areas etc. I didn't group...and rarely spoke to anyone bar the person who introduced me to it all!!
I have since rolled a Warlock (and a priest), on a PvP server, joined a guild, she is 70 now (He's 62), and I lead raids in Kara most weekends....

The other day, I logged onto my rogue, whom I hadn't seen past the log-in screen for months and months. I ran her around UC a bit, and decided to have a nosey in her bags and bank......Ohhh myyy!!

Mana pots, +spirit food!!...no 'sap' on my bar at all.....and still some white/cloth armor!!
I sat and lol'd lots!!
Oh how naive was I??
How did I ever get to 40 AND have enough gold to get my mount??
All I kept thinking was "Awwww.....bless"

Did you do anything in the beginning, that looking back, you now think..."Uh?? What WAS I thinking??"

Hello again Ladies,

I noticed an earlier post about players feelings about Undercity (If there should be a smell debuff, the creepy factor of the place, etc).
With the responses in mind and noting how many great Rpers that we have around here, I wanted to get a base idea of what your thoughts are on The Forsaken as a whole.  Forgive me if this has been brought up before.

So someone here mentioned Lore, and that jogged my memory.

I'm an avid reader, and now that I've made it through two very good but old character novels (Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenin), I need something completely different to read. I was considering some of the lore books about WoW, since I really don't know that much about the background, even though I've played two years now. Plus I think it might be fun to learn more about the lore for WOTLK.

So where do I start in terms of WoW novels and lore? Any tips?

My real life friends have essentially forbidden me from posting about WoW in my LJ, so here goes.  I get more comments and feedback here anyway.

I finally got around to doing that respec I've been thinking about/talking about for the past 10 or 15 levels.  Whee.  So now, instead of being 100% frost mage (on the advice of my old guild; they were dumb, knew nothing about frostie construction, and were trying to get me to spec fire), I'm going for an 18/0/43 build, because dammit, I need the mana regen.

I was seriously tempted to go 0/30/31, but I think my brain would explode from too many spells.

Mages: your favorite builds?

Also, I just started up a lock on Haomarush by the name of Cilarnen (anyone who gets this reference gets cookies).  He's pretty fruity (my lock, not the reference, though that's debatable).  :D

Any lock advice?  Why the crap is the pet so confusing?  x_x

here it is. Screenshot of my UI/addons for WOW.

Does anyone know how to make my font any bigger. If I can't get it any bigger I'm going to have to delete it and I've just spent over 6 hours working on this and probably have another 6 to go.

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Tonight my guild gave me 1200g and 30 minutes to have a full frost resist set for Hydross and informed me that I would be tanking adds.

Not DPSing.

Sooooooo. I got my resistance cap and STILL managed to pull off my defense cap of 415 to be uncrittable.
Oh, how those silly, silly warriors envied my druidy defense cap goodness.
490 FTL.

/flex. I was amazed that I got my numbers up like that.. I ended up having to whip out my Ony trinket to keep my defense capped, but in the end, I managed. I was impressed with the teamwork of the guild in such a short amount of time- also, we're all RICH. People were whipping out epics like it was nothing! Bahahahah. Oh the joys of guild banks.

Anyway, we didn't get him down- which brings me to the whole point of the post.
Druid main tanks on Hydross and Hydross hints and tips.
How do you handle Hydross? Our biggest problem was add handling (me) because I'd never done it before. We generally had two banished elementals and I tanked the other two. Problem was- I couldn't get agro on them! I had NO rage and was just running around chasing after them while they wtfpwned our healers, growling when possible. We managed to get him to 58% on our best attempt- but that wasn't enough. :( Helpz?

Thanks everyone who gave me shadow priest in Kara advice from last night into this afternoon :D I feel I did pretty well - #2 on DPS overall and just barely managed to get #1 on Aran XD (We did Attumen through Aran tonight, also our guild best for night 1 of Kara :))

I only embarrassed myself with OOMness once, on Illhoof. (That Illhoof attempt was ill-fated anyway, too many demon chains heals... we went through it the next time much better and I had no mana problems XD) Having a shammy (♥ Mel) probably helped a ton... during that bad Illhoof run I was begging her for Mana Tide XD;; but between that and shadowfiend there were some boss fights where I didn't have to chug any mana pots :)

All in all though, I still drank 9 mana potions... going from a resto druid who almost never needs to use potions or even innervate to a mana starved shadow priest is an adjustment! At least my warrior can pick herbs ^^;

I still need more practice keeping VT up - even with dot timers I get distracted sometimes. Getting better though :D I was over 600 dps on most fights according to WWS and just barely under 800 on my best. Having so much fun, I love my shadow priest... even if she is just an alt :)

Tell me your WORST bad PuG stories.
I love the virtual equivilent of walking into a wall, and you girls always have great stories about awful groups.

My own personal bad pug happened today.
Someone needed a tank for Steam Vaults.
As a tank, I volunteered out of boredom.
I am a druid.
Offering to tank.
They asked my spec.
THEY ASKED MY SPEC.
So I had some fun.
I told them that I was a resto tanking druid- the bark gives a bonus to armor and defense!
I even went as far as making it convincing.
I dropped the 35 gold to go respec resto and get myself a tree form. I loaded up on the cheapest, shittiest possible greens on the AH.
I duel-weilded fish and tree punched my way through SV tanking. I spelled simple words wrong. I WAS THE WORST PUG EVER... except maybe these three.

This was a group with three huntards and "resto" shaman.
The pets were named "Cat", "ButtRape" and "ChukNorris".
The huntards had lots of +healing mail.. which the shaman could have used because HE NEVER HEALED ONE SINGLE TIME.


Er, tree punch fish-tanking is a lot of fun. I reccomend that you find a group of -those- pugs and have a little fun! it's great lolstress relief on vent!